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Research Article

A phenological object-based approach for rice crop classification using time-series Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data in Taiwan

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Pages 2722-2739 | Received 24 Jun 2020, Accepted 10 Nov 2020, Published online: 07 Jan 2021

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